Art Of The Day Weekly

Frankfurt was at its best during the roaring 20s

FRANKFURT – The festivities for the centennial of the Bauhaus movement started this week with a festival in Berlin. This will be followed by a series of exceptional exhibitions throughout all of Germany. This event in Frankfurt, one of the first in the calendar, captures the modernist atmosphere that prevailed in the city in the beginning of the twenties, when art schools, their professors and their students worked hand in hand with the officials to dream of urban development at a human scale. Posters, design, photographs, fashion: from shoes to the grills on the Adler car, everything contributed to a new, radiant future. But utopias do not always end well.
• Modernism in Francfort at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, from 19 January to 14 April 2019.

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